The Cosmic Attitude Adjustment of Tachanka is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its anti-smoking policies, state-planned economy, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 36.648 billion Tachankans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 94.1%.

The all-consuming Tachankan economy, worth a remarkable 4,343 trillion Makhnoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 118,523 Makhnoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Social networking sites have discussion groups devoted to planning terrorist attacks, business meetings across the country are interrupted by the sound of squeaking whoopee-cushions, international collectors know that a grease-stain on a work of art probably means it's passed through Tachanka, and the saying "when pigs fly" has been changed to "when the lights work". Crime is totally unknown. Tachanka's national animal is the Nestor, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Tachanka is ranked 329,479^th in the world and 2^nd in Kashmir for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -18.92 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.